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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (17 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the Irish Refugee Council Report titled "Accommodation Crisis 2022: Response and Recommendations" published in October 2022, that states that the Irish protection system is in crisis, that there has been a serious and unprecedented breakdown in Ireland's reception system and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Industry (17 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the issuance of an extended exploration licence to a company (details supplied); if this decision was subject to an analysis of the climate impacts of the potential extraction of fossil fuel in the field; if any analysis was carried out on the impact on Ireland’s climate targets and commitments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms McMahon for her presentation. I totally agree with Deputy Hourigan on the analogy with Covid. I do not like it either and I do not think it serves us well here, not because of the Es, because what gardaí do well is educate, enforce and so on, but because the Covid legislation was rigid emergency legislation brought in to try to contain a pandemic and on an understandably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is just an observation. I just found it unusual. I will focus on the comparison with polling stations. I have been warned by gardaí many times about activity near polling stations, particularly in the early days of the implementation of the legislation. Contrary to what Ms McMahon said, there was not a general understanding that one could not canvass or poster within 50 m of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: To correct the record, I am not taking offence in that manner. I would like the PULSE system to be changed to call it something other than a pro-life protest because I do not think it is fair to us. I want to talk about the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act. I do not know from her submission whether Ms McMahon thinks An Garda Síochána needs more powers to search and go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, I will come back to Dr. McNamara on two points and then I will stop. My point with regard to the curtilage is that members of the Garda do not have a problem. The ordinary garda on the beat does not have a problem about the curtilage around a polling station. They are immediately on top of people who go over the 50 m limit. Members of the Garda understand what the curtilage is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: What does the Electoral Act say? Is it 50 m?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Somebody said 50 m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I had no idea; I just do what the gardaí tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to tease this out. At the meeting Dr. McNamara had with the Department, did he suggest or did the Department suggest that we look at the Electoral Act and compare it to the polling stations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: It might be useful for us to suggest that to the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I forget my second question so I will stop.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I would like the Taoiseach to look at the promised cost-of-living reduction of €1,000 in third level fees. There is a cohort that is not going to get this reduction, namely, students who have to repeat a year. In many cases, these students are more economically vulnerable and may have to work part-time to keep themselves in college. Can the Taoiseach explain why this extraordinary...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Government is looking at it.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if a climate action unit has been established in his Department. [54846/22]

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Government says it wants more ambition on the limit of 1.50C at COP27 but that loss and damage was a major achievement. The real story of COP27 is the failure of measures to limit global temperatures. It is like saying to the people of east Africa, "We can starve 40,000 of you and give you a few bob" or to the people of Pakistan, "We can cause catastrophic flooding for 30 million of...

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: No, I am saying we should take responsibility for ourselves.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am talking about actions at home to keep emissions down. The Taoiseach knows that was my question.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry, that is the answer to Deputy Bacik’s question, not mine. I asked the Taoiseach why the Government issued licences for drilling.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Yes, but the direct question I asked was the irony of giving licences for drilling.